MagmaConf 2017

Anti-Harassment Policy

MagmaConf is designed to be a harassment-free conference experience for all participants. We welcome everyone regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, mother tongue, operational system of your devices, preferred programming language/framework, or anything else. We embrace diversity.

We ask all participants to respect one another, and we will not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
We reserve the right to warn or expel offenders from the event without a right of refund, and they will not be able to attend any future MagmaConf related events in any way.

Please contact a staff member in case you are being harassed, or are concerned about anything that might be related to this subject.

Conference staff will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.

Anti-harassment policy

MagmaConf is designed to be a harassment-free conference experience for everyone involved. We basically ask all participants (Speakers, Staff, Attendees) to respect one another. Our anti-harassment policy can be found
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Speakers

March 29, 30 & 31 - Manzanillo, Col. MX

Katrina is an open source advocate at GitHub. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She works primarily in Go and Ruby, contributes to several open source projects, and is the creator of exercism.io, a platform for leveling up your programming skills.

GitHub

Katrina Owen

Katrina Owen

Katrina is an open source advocate at GitHub. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She works primarily in Go and Ruby, contributes to several open source projects, and is the creator of exercism.io, a platform for leveling up your programming skills.

Obie Fernandez is a 20+ year veteran of professional software development, noted author, conference speaker and tech entrepreneur with a passion for helping others push their boundaries of achievement. His most recent startup is Andela, a venture-backed startup that has raised over 40 million dollars in venture capital with the audacious goal of training one-hundred thousand young African men and women to be world-class software developers. Obie has also held leadership roles at prestigious consultancies such as ThoughtWorks and his own world-famous agency, Hashrocket. In addition to his work as editor of the Addison Wesley Professional Ruby Series, his business book, The Lean Enterprise, tackles how to apply the principles of Lean Startup at large corporations.

Obie Fernandez

Obie Fernandez

Obie Fernandez is a 20+ year veteran of professional software development, noted author, conference speaker and tech entrepreneur with a passion for helping others push their boundaries of achievement. His most recent startup is Andela, a venture-backed startup that has raised over 40 million dollars in venture capital with the audacious goal of training one-hundred thousand young African men and women to be world-class software developers. Obie has also held leadership roles at prestigious consultancies such as ThoughtWorks and his own world-famous agency, Hashrocket. In addition to his work as editor of the Addison Wesley Professional Ruby Series, his business book, The Lean Enterprise, tackles how to apply the principles of Lean Startup at large corporations.

Clarke started Stembolt (originally FreeRunning Technologies) over 7 years ago, building it to a company of 20 developers working almost exclusively in ecommerce. Clarke's 15 years of programming and open source experience helped Stembolt fork Spree Commerce to create Solidus, which has started gaining wide adoption in the opensource rails ecommerce world.

Stembolt

Clarke Brunsdon

Clarke Brunsdon

Clarke started Stembolt (originally FreeRunning Technologies) over 7 years ago, building it to a company of 20 developers working almost exclusively in ecommerce. Clarke's 15 years of programming and open source experience helped Stembolt fork Spree Commerce to create Solidus, which has started gaining wide adoption in the opensource rails ecommerce world.

Matt Mills is a Ruby and Rails programmer from Oakland. He also takes a lot of [pictures](http://matt.pictures), and hack on open souce hardware: [midnight.computer](http://midnight.computer) and [ourglass.watch](ourglass.watch). His newest project is an internet connected lightbulb that anyone can build and hack on. When he isn't doing any of those things, he can be found riding the bike and drinking strong black coffee, both of which help with everything else he does.

Bleacher Report

Matt Mills

Matt Mills

Matt Mills is a Ruby and Rails programmer from Oakland. He also takes a lot of [pictures](http://matt.pictures), and hack on open souce hardware: [midnight.computer](http://midnight.computer) and [ourglass.watch](ourglass.watch). His newest project is an internet connected lightbulb that anyone can build and hack on. When he isn't doing any of those things, he can be found riding the bike and drinking strong black coffee, both of which help with everything else he does.

Speaker, developer, painter, gamer: an eccentric eclectic. Caleb is currently
coding mostly in Ruby and Go. He's not a fan of the SPA. He has braved the wintry tundra of Alaska and the harsh deserts of Arizona. He
has fired a Mosin-Nagant without blinking, fought the Red Menace, built Battleship Couch, and killed a bear and wore its pelt. He enjoys fine wines, craft beers, and punching comets.

Heroku

Caleb Thompson

Caleb Thompson

Speaker, developer, painter, gamer: an eccentric eclectic. Caleb is currently
coding mostly in Ruby and Go. He's not a fan of the SPA. He has braved the wintry tundra of Alaska and the harsh deserts of Arizona. He
has fired a Mosin-Nagant without blinking, fought the Red Menace, built Battleship Couch, and killed a bear and wore its pelt. He enjoys fine wines, craft beers, and punching comets.

UX/UI designer at MagmaLabs, always trying to create tools to make any platform easier to use. Can’t work without music. His biggest dream is to be creative. Contrary to what people thinks, he can’t walk on water nor turn water into wine. He is a nice guy.

MagmaLabs

Jordán López

Jordán López

UX/UI designer at MagmaLabs, always trying to create tools to make any platform easier to use. Can’t work without music. His biggest dream is to be creative. Contrary to what people thinks, he can’t walk on water nor turn water into wine. He is a nice guy.

A British Ruby/Rails developer, with a penchant for tweed, fine coffee, and homebrewing. When not working for clients, he helps organise fun events around the world that teach people to program flying robots. He also occasionally speaks at international conferences on the intersection of programming and robotics.

Red Hat

Julian Cheal

Julian Cheal

A British Ruby/Rails developer, with a penchant for tweed, fine coffee, and homebrewing. When not working for clients, he helps organise fun events around the world that teach people to program flying robots. He also occasionally speaks at international conferences on the intersection of programming and robotics.

Amy is a programmer and designer who cares about STEM and STEAM education and making the world better through human-centric design and technology. She is the founder of Bubblesort Zines—zines that explain computer science concepts via drawings and stories. Previously, she was a web dev at Airbnb, did machine learning research at Honda Research Institute in Japan, and HCI research at the University of Tokyo.

Bubblesort Zines

Amy Wibowo

Amy Wibowo

Amy is a programmer and designer who cares about STEM and STEAM education and making the world better through human-centric design and technology. She is the founder of Bubblesort Zines—zines that explain computer science concepts via drawings and stories. Previously, she was a web dev at Airbnb, did machine learning research at Honda Research Institute in Japan, and HCI research at the University of Tokyo.

Nico is a front-end developer with a strong love for Ruby and therefore mostly work Middleman or Rails projects with large, maintainable code bases, style guides, and designing in the browser. Whenever he finds a way to automize things, to create an open-source solution, like the LivingStyleGuide Gem.

Hagenburger GmbH

Nico Hagenburger

Nico Hagenburger

Nico is a front-end developer with a strong love for Ruby and therefore mostly work Middleman or Rails projects with large, maintainable code bases, style guides, and designing in the browser. Whenever he finds a way to automize things, to create an open-source solution, like the LivingStyleGuide Gem.

Ryan Davis has been using Ruby since 2000 and is a founding member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade, the first and foremost ruby brigade in the world. He's an independent consultant and his background includes QA, automation, language and tool development, object databases, and smalltalk. In ruby/rails, he has focused on developer productivity, code/process/people optimization, and test automation tools such as heckle, hoe, ruby_parser, ruby2c, ruby2ruby, RubyInline, ZenTest, minitest, and more.

Seattle.rb Consulting

Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis has been using Ruby since 2000 and is a founding member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade, the first and foremost ruby brigade in the world. He's an independent consultant and his background includes QA, automation, language and tool development, object databases, and smalltalk. In ruby/rails, he has focused on developer productivity, code/process/people optimization, and test automation tools such as heckle, hoe, ruby_parser, ruby2c, ruby2ruby, RubyInline, ZenTest, minitest, and more.

Vic is technologist, programmer, and entrepreneur currently working as a Technical Lead at Instacart, where he leads the team responsible for Instacart's customer-facing web and mobile apps. Previously, he led the team responsible for paying out all of Instacart's shoppers on a weekly basis.
Before that, he cut his teeth as a dev at Hashrocket. He's originally from Texas, so just say "howdy!" to make him feel at home.

Instacart

Vic Ramon

Vic Ramon

Vic is technologist, programmer, and entrepreneur currently working as a Technical Lead at Instacart, where he leads the team responsible for Instacart's customer-facing web and mobile apps. Previously, he led the team responsible for paying out all of Instacart's shoppers on a weekly basis.
Before that, he cut his teeth as a dev at Hashrocket. He's originally from Texas, so just say "howdy!" to make him feel at home.

Erica is a software engineer, researcher and tinkerer. She holds a B.S and M.S in Computer Science from Clark Atlanta University where she conducted research in virtual reality and 3D data modeling. She has also conducted post-graduate research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, she specialized in graphics, data visualization and telepresence. Always eager to explore emerging technologies, Erica has worked with various technologies at the heart of telepresence for over 15 years, including mixed reality, computer vision, IoT and mobile development.

Women Who Code Atlanta

Erica Stanley

Erica Stanley

Erica is a software engineer, researcher and tinkerer. She holds a B.S and M.S in Computer Science from Clark Atlanta University where she conducted research in virtual reality and 3D data modeling. She has also conducted post-graduate research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, she specialized in graphics, data visualization and telepresence. Always eager to explore emerging technologies, Erica has worked with various technologies at the heart of telepresence for over 15 years, including mixed reality, computer vision, IoT and mobile development.

Sebastián is a software developer that enjoys pair programming and has a passion for teaching. He works as a software engineer at Cookpad helping make everyday cooking fun. In his free time he is involved on the local software development groups and organizes RubyConf Colombia.
He enjoys a good cup of Colombian coffee each morning which is his secret weapon to start the day in a great code-writing mood.

Cookpad

Sebastián Sogamoso

Sebastián Sogamoso

Sebastián is a software developer that enjoys pair programming and has a passion for teaching. He works as a software engineer at Cookpad helping make everyday cooking fun. In his free time he is involved on the local software development groups and organizes RubyConf Colombia.
He enjoys a good cup of Colombian coffee each morning which is his secret weapon to start the day in a great code-writing mood.

Ana is a software engineer from Colima, Mexico. She considers herself a traveler and a tacos al pastor connoisseur. Ana is currently working at Travis CI as backend developer. You can find her wandering the world, judging other cities' tacos.

Travis CI

Ana Rosas

Ana Rosas

Ana is a software engineer from Colima, Mexico. She considers herself a traveler and a tacos al pastor connoisseur. Ana is currently working at Travis CI as backend developer. You can find her wandering the world, judging other cities' tacos.

Rachel is a full-stack engineer running her own business to help teams ship safely and quickly. Most recently she founded Opsolutely, a Y Combinator company, to ease the pain of deployments. Before that she was an engineer at GitHub and ModCloth. Liskov, her mischievous cat, functions as a Chaos Monkey for her home, and in her free time Rachel is learning Illustrator to better design products for her Etsy Store. (Say hi, and snag a sticker!)

Rachel Myers

Rachel Myers

Rachel is a full-stack engineer running her own business to help teams ship safely and quickly. Most recently she founded Opsolutely, a Y Combinator company, to ease the pain of deployments. Before that she was an engineer at GitHub and ModCloth. Liskov, her mischievous cat, functions as a Chaos Monkey for her home, and in her free time Rachel is learning Illustrator to better design products for her Etsy Store. (Say hi, and snag a sticker!)

Rails-api member, Elixir lover & Senior Engineer at @packlane, SF. João Moura is a Brazilian Engineer and a Passionate Speaker, that loves Open Source and blogs at joaomdmoura.com. He has been involved into a bunch of international conferences trying to spread his love about tech and meeting awesome people

Packlane

João Moura

João Moura

Rails-api member, Elixir lover & Senior Engineer at @packlane, SF. João Moura is a Brazilian Engineer and a Passionate Speaker, that loves Open Source and blogs at joaomdmoura.com. He has been involved into a bunch of international conferences trying to spread his love about tech and meeting awesome people

Laura is a Computer System Engineer from Saltillo Technologic Institute. She is oriented to backend development with PHP and 3 years ago she started to explore the world of ecommerce by working mainly with Magento. Coffee addict. Currently she colaborates with Tech Women Community, PHP Jalisco and Technovation Mexico.

MagmaLabs

Laura Trejo

Laura Trejo

Laura is a Computer System Engineer from Saltillo Technologic Institute. She is oriented to backend development with PHP and 3 years ago she started to explore the world of ecommerce by working mainly with Magento. Coffee addict. Currently she colaborates with Tech Women Community, PHP Jalisco and Technovation Mexico.

Nancy is a student of Engineering in Information and Communication Technologies at León, Guanajuato. At this moment she is the leader of Epic Queen León and Regional Embassador for Technovation Challenge. She loves to promote female empowerment through the use of STEAM. Vinyl music and Cinematography lover.

Epic Queen León

Nancy Nava

Nancy Nava

Nancy is a student of Engineering in Information and Communication Technologies at León, Guanajuato. At this moment she is the leader of Epic Queen León and Regional Embassador for Technovation Challenge. She loves to promote female empowerment through the use of STEAM. Vinyl music and Cinematography lover.

Dr. María Makarova was a mentor at the Technovation Challenge in Mountain View (California) in 2010. Two years later, she encouraged a group of Oracle women employees to launch this same program in 2013. This way, she achieved to create a space that fosters female presence in the IT entrepreneur world. This labor arrived to our country with Technovation Challenge México and with the direction of María, it has been activated in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, Morelia, Colima, Aguascalientes, and Queretaro.

Technovation Challenge México

Maria Makarova

Maria Makarova

Dr. María Makarova was a mentor at the Technovation Challenge in Mountain View (California) in 2010. Two years later, she encouraged a group of Oracle women employees to launch this same program in 2013. This way, she achieved to create a space that fosters female presence in the IT entrepreneur world. This labor arrived to our country with Technovation Challenge México and with the direction of María, it has been activated in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, Morelia, Colima, Aguascalientes, and Queretaro.

Allison McMillan is a software developer. She's been a startup founder, community builder at the University of Michigan, and Managing Director of a national non-profit. Allison got her start at a DC Rails Girls event and is now an organizer. When she's not coding, you can find her encouraging her toddler's climbing skills or pretending she has time to bake.

Collective Idea

Allison McMillan

Allison McMillan

Allison McMillan is a software developer. She's been a startup founder, community builder at the University of Michigan, and Managing Director of a national non-profit. Allison got her start at a DC Rails Girls event and is now an organizer. When she's not coding, you can find her encouraging her toddler's climbing skills or pretending she has time to bake.

Creative Delivery Manager at iTexico, product designer and business consultant. Involved in designing more than 200 products for web, mobile and and IoT. Worked with clients in more than 8 countries and across several industries. Co-Organizer of StartupWeekend Guadalajara, mentor for startups and passionate about communities and collaboration between the technology ecosystem.

iTexico

David Sandoval

David Sandoval

Creative Delivery Manager at iTexico, product designer and business consultant. Involved in designing more than 200 products for web, mobile and and IoT. Worked with clients in more than 8 countries and across several industries. Co-Organizer of StartupWeekend Guadalajara, mentor for startups and passionate about communities and collaboration between the technology ecosystem.

Enrique has been passionate about writing code since high school. His experience as software engineer ranges from backend and web applications to open source. He is a big fan of pair programming and believes that collaborative environments are the key to improve software design.
Enrique was born and raised in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, he received his Master’s degree from the University of Valencia. He enjoys traveling and reading.

Salesforce

Enrique Mogollán

Enrique Mogollán

Enrique has been passionate about writing code since high school. His experience as software engineer ranges from backend and web applications to open source. He is a big fan of pair programming and believes that collaborative environments are the key to improve software design.
Enrique was born and raised in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, he received his Master’s degree from the University of Valencia. He enjoys traveling and reading.

Anti-Harassment Policy

MagmaConf is designed to be a harassment-free conference experience for everyone involved. We basically ask all participants (Speakers, Staff, Attendees) to respect one another. Our anti-harassment policy can be found
here >>here >>